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U-Verse is FTTP?

Most U-Verse Customers are FTTN

FTTP does exist, mainly for New Construction

Both flavors are out there & exist

For the lucky few its FTTP

But the FTTN service is just fine also.

FTTN is better, ONT Burns out to much.

reply to ztmike
As far as downloading a webpage, is there a noticeable difference between FTTN and FTTP?

Currently you won't notice a difference since all services are capped at 25megs. In the long run FTTP is better, case in point Verizon.

reply to ztmike
I'm one of those 'lucky' FTTP customers.

From a functionality standpoint, FTTP is no better then FTTN because AT&T chooses to not differentiate their service offerings.

From a reliability standpoint, I don't have any experience with my ONT burning out ( I've had it for 2 years now; knock on wood.)

I do know that between my structured wiring ( 2 Cat 5E drops per 8 rooms ) and my optical rather then RF trasnport, that I don't have any of the issues that a traditional brownfield deployment would have. I don't worry about things like SN/ATTN and corrupted packets. I don't worry about any of the house wiring issues; it just works.

So I don't have statistics to back this up, but I'd would assume that FTTP is more reliable then FTTN, not less reliable.

There is only one true benefit of FTTP over FTTN as of now: Much better latency. But only the hard-core gamer crowd is that sensitive to latency differences.

I have only ever been on one FTTP repair, and when I arrived, everything was working as it was supposed to.

Granted I have only done 3 FTTP installs, but still, there seems to be a lot less issues with FTTP IMHO.

reply to ztmike
aw c'mon.... what would you rather have... good old American electrons, or a frickin' sissy little beam of LIGHT?

Ill take the light :P

Copper is so last century....

reply to ztmike
technicly copper also uses a form of light to just its in the radio spectrum you cant see

atleast i think they do

reply to zed260

reply to ztmike
that would be freaky 3 foot wide eyes

point is as far as light and rf go there both pretty much the same just the frequency that's different

in the case of visble light the frequncy is around 790–400 terahertz

the main benafit is that the higher frequency of visble light can transmit more information

speaking of which i wonder if someday we will find a way of sending information in Ultraviolet light though a wire that would be even more bandwith

i guess this'll be the last time I try to joke around on this site, y'all must have had your humor surgically removed.

reply to zed260
If my physics professor were dead... he would be truing in his grave now.

I made a comment along the same lines as sound, vibration, light, and rf are all the same...

He freaked out and gave the class a 2hr lecture on how its not.... and he was convincing.

reply to ztmike
I didn't know the latency was better on FTTP. I thought it still did vdsl spec just over fiber instead and was still interleaved. What kind of latency do FTTP customers see?